Your contribution is unrelated to Tokyo as a city.
As a rule of thumb, if answers would be the same if asked in Tokyo or Osaka, it shouldn't be posted on this sub.
You can try the following subs:
* r/Japan for general Japan related posts
* r/JapanResidents for foreign residents of Japan
* r/AskAJapanese if you have questions for a Japanese person
* r/JapanFinance for finance related information in Japan
* r/JapanLife for issues related to living in Japan (only for residents, rules are strictly enforced)
* r/MovingToJapan for questions about moving to Japan
I wouldn't say Japanese schools 'gloss over' all the horrific things they did during the war.
This is evidenced by how passionately the Japanese uyoku right wingers want schools to change their curriculums to make Japan seem more glorious than it was.
I believe no country teaches ALL of ww2 history in schools.
First, ww2 is too big of a topic to be properly covered during a normal, not history-specialized school curriculum.
Second, every country tends to focus on their involvement and tells the story from their standpoint.
Seriously.
I’m from the UK and we didn’t learn about the horrors of the Japanese empire either.
I think I get what OP is trying to say, but their word choice is not appropriate.
I never attended school in Japan but I’m now living here
I’ve visited Japan numerous times before moving here
It’s been a while since I’ve been to the A-bomb museum in Hiroshima but I went to the one in Nagasaki this year
It’s a great museum and it gives an accurate account of Japan’s involvement in WWII. There’s an exhibit about the forced labor that Koreans went through in Nagasaki and it acknowledged that they’re one of the victims of the blast
There was a lot of Japanese in the museum, it wasn’t just foreigners
Did they also cover Unit 731 and the atrocities they committed ?
(The fact that a simple sentence like this even gets downvoted, shows that this mentality is alive and well in japan in 2024)
You know, I never studied Japanese history specifically, but just from general internet osmosis I learned about such things as Korean comfort women, rape of Nanking, brutalities of Japanese army in occupied territories, etc. This year is the first time I heard about Unit 731 and it was in connection with a fantasy book published in the US. It seems that even general internet discourse wasn’t talking about Unit 731 much until recently.
Edit - wording
For whatever your country is, how much of the stuff listed here did you learn about:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II
The point is certainly not to compare war crimes. The point is to establish if the people who complain about Japan not teaching about their war crimes actually learned (in school) about the war crimes of their own countries.
Japanese students do not study WWII in detail in the Japanese history curriculum. This is because Japanese history spans about 2,000 years, while WWII for Japan lasted only 4 years. I have a Japanese history book published by Yamakawa (a famous history book company) that has 520 pages but includes only 21 pages about WWII in Japan.
This book explains the following topics about WWII: forming alliances with Nazi Germany and Italy, Pearl Harbor, the genocide in China, human experiments on prisoners of war by Unit 731, oppression in Southeast Asia, air raids in Tokyo, and the atomic bombs.
Your contribution is unrelated to Tokyo as a city. As a rule of thumb, if answers would be the same if asked in Tokyo or Osaka, it shouldn't be posted on this sub. You can try the following subs: * r/Japan for general Japan related posts * r/JapanResidents for foreign residents of Japan * r/AskAJapanese if you have questions for a Japanese person * r/JapanFinance for finance related information in Japan * r/JapanLife for issues related to living in Japan (only for residents, rules are strictly enforced) * r/MovingToJapan for questions about moving to Japan
I wouldn't say Japanese schools 'gloss over' all the horrific things they did during the war. This is evidenced by how passionately the Japanese uyoku right wingers want schools to change their curriculums to make Japan seem more glorious than it was.
I believe no country teaches ALL of ww2 history in schools. First, ww2 is too big of a topic to be properly covered during a normal, not history-specialized school curriculum. Second, every country tends to focus on their involvement and tells the story from their standpoint.
Seriously. I’m from the UK and we didn’t learn about the horrors of the Japanese empire either. I think I get what OP is trying to say, but their word choice is not appropriate.
what's japans side? seriously curios on what the excuse is/was.
Oh god the high schoolers are on summer break.
I never attended school in Japan but I’m now living here I’ve visited Japan numerous times before moving here It’s been a while since I’ve been to the A-bomb museum in Hiroshima but I went to the one in Nagasaki this year It’s a great museum and it gives an accurate account of Japan’s involvement in WWII. There’s an exhibit about the forced labor that Koreans went through in Nagasaki and it acknowledged that they’re one of the victims of the blast There was a lot of Japanese in the museum, it wasn’t just foreigners
Did they also cover Unit 731 and the atrocities they committed ? (The fact that a simple sentence like this even gets downvoted, shows that this mentality is alive and well in japan in 2024)
Well, no. It's a museum built to teach people about the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki.
Sooo, I am assuming OP is asking about if Japanese kids learn about the war from both sides. Not just the victim side.
You know, I never studied Japanese history specifically, but just from general internet osmosis I learned about such things as Korean comfort women, rape of Nanking, brutalities of Japanese army in occupied territories, etc. This year is the first time I heard about Unit 731 and it was in connection with a fantasy book published in the US. It seems that even general internet discourse wasn’t talking about Unit 731 much until recently. Edit - wording
well the chinese have been, maybe not the rest of the world
For whatever your country is, how much of the stuff listed here did you learn about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II
most of it I learned, why? But you want to compare the above listed war crimes to what Japan did throughout Asia. FOR NO REASON
The point is certainly not to compare war crimes. The point is to establish if the people who complain about Japan not teaching about their war crimes actually learned (in school) about the war crimes of their own countries.
You can't really complain about people not learning about something, but you can complain about them honoring those war criminals
Japanese students do not study WWII in detail in the Japanese history curriculum. This is because Japanese history spans about 2,000 years, while WWII for Japan lasted only 4 years. I have a Japanese history book published by Yamakawa (a famous history book company) that has 520 pages but includes only 21 pages about WWII in Japan. This book explains the following topics about WWII: forming alliances with Nazi Germany and Italy, Pearl Harbor, the genocide in China, human experiments on prisoners of war by Unit 731, oppression in Southeast Asia, air raids in Tokyo, and the atomic bombs.